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AI Ushers In Era of Rapid-Fire Software Vulnerabilities
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Cybersecurity AI Ushers In Era of Rapid-Fire Software Vulnerabilities Mass cybersecurity disruptions, such as this week’s scramble by governments and companies to patch two critical software flaws, are about to “get a lot worse before they get better,” a top executive at Anthropic PBC has warned. Banks, airlines and governments around the world pulled down their websites on a precautionary basis this week to prevent them from being hacked after cybersecurity researchers, with the aid of AI,...
Cybersecurity
AI Ushers In Era of Rapid-Fire Software Vulnerabilities
Mass cybersecurity disruptions, such as this week’s scramble by governments and companies to patch two critical software flaws, are about to “get a lot worse before they get better,” a top executive at Anthropic PBC has warned.
Banks, airlines and governments around the world pulled down their websites on a precautionary basis this week to prevent them from being hacked after cybersecurity researchers, with the aid of AI, discovered vulnerabilities in the open-source programming language PHP that underpins huge swaths of the internet.